Vin Diesel
Xander Cage
Xander Cage is your standard adrenaline junkie with no fear and a lousy attitude. When the US Government "recruits" him to go on a mission, he's not exactly thrilled. His mission: to gather information on an organization that may just be planning the destruction of the world, led by the nihilistic Yorgi.
Homepage | http://www.sonypictures.com/movies/xxx/ |
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Release Date | 2002-08-09 |
Runtime | 2h 4m |
Directors | Dean Semler, M. James Arnett, M. James Arnett, Jonathan Lee, Alexander Witt, Rob Cohen, George Parra, Hans Berggren, Milena Koubková, Lars P. Winther, Anthony Caron-Delion, Jakub Dvorak, Mark Taylor |
Producers | David Minkowski, Matthew Stillman, Arne Schmidt, Derek Dauchy, Todd Garner, Neal H. Moritz, Vin Diesel, George Zakk, Michelle Purple, Kelly L'Estrange, Creighton Bellinger, Carole Cowley, Albert Mason, Keiko Koyama |
Writer | Rich Wilkes |
Vin Diesel is actually quite good in this as an adventurer who manages, frequently, to wind up US law enforcement by causing mischief and mayhem against those he thinks deserving of exposure. When NSA agent "Gibbons" (Samuel L. Jackson) arranges for him and his team to be dumped in the Czech Republic they have a choice - infiltrate a ruthless gang of Russian hoodlums bent on world domination or... go to jail. Initially, the team think it's all an hoax but as it becomes clear that they actually are in a real scenario it all starts to heat up. Diesel has bags of charisma, attitude and muscle on screen, for this. Sure, it's not new nor will the writing and dialogue cause you to need a dictionary (unless you are about seven years old) but as action films go, it is perfectly watchable with plenty of car chases, pyrotechnics and gadgets
— CinemaSerf